The new engineered fabrics bridge between courture
and ready-to-wear. One piece
suggests hovering, aura-like waffle-shells using
delicate thermoformed acrylics connected by silicone
links. Another uses a hybrid pleat inspired by the
early-twentieth-century designer Mariano Fortuny,
expanded into a corrugated meshwork that combines
leather, transparent polymer links and crystalline
inclusions.

The collaboration has been growing in momentum
with Iris van Herpen's launch of ready-to-wear lines
of clothing that translates the radical experiment
of her haute couture explorations into comfortable,
highly finished form-fitting clothing. Critics acclaimed
the new work, 'The most powerful fashion mix of
nature and technology that I have ever seen'- Suzy
Menkes, Vogue; 'Piece de Resistance'- Joanne Furniss,
Style.com.